Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified a new detention facility run by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, where several detainees have been tortured during their detention, including participants in the Women, Life, Freedom uprising. Based on interviews with former detainees, the facility, located on Lotfi Street opposite Ghareh Hassanlou Park, is said to contain at least 110 solitary...

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence in Baneh, Kurdistan province, has summoned admins of several Telegram channels and threatened them over publishing news on the murder of a Kurdish kolbar by border forces. On 4 November, Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars and killed a young man named Mohammad Khodaei in the border areas near the Kani Seif village of Baneh. Following the incident,...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has prepared this report to draw the attention of international human rights organisations to the situation of secret detention centres of two security agencies, the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in Iranian Kurdistan. The report briefly addresses the location of these secret detention centres and the detention conditions, interrogation, and...